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Entries Tagged as '2010'

Film Review: R – Hit First, Hit Hardest (2010)

August 25th, 2011 No Comments

Playing the waiting game, Noer and Lindholm’s R: Hit First, Hit Hardest reveals the bitter, cinematic truth about life behind bars in a Danish prison. R: Hit First, Hit Hardest Sinnerman by Mark Wilshin CAUTION: Here be spoilers Like a Danish, and rather belated, sequel to Fritz Lang’s chilling 1931 masterpiece M, Michael Noer and [...]

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Film Review: In A Better World / Haevnen (2010)

August 18th, 2011 No Comments

Split between Kenya and Denmark, Susanne Bier’s In A Better World has war and peace in its sights as its playground bullies test the pacifists to the limit. In A Better World The End Of Violence by Mark Wilshin CAUTION: Here be spoilers. Susanne Bier has issues. And if it was paternity in After The Wedding [...]

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Film Review: Sarah’s Key / Elle s’appelait Sarah (2010)

August 15th, 2011 No Comments

With Kristin Scott Thomas charmingly exposing family secrets, Sarah’s Key combines the horror of the Vel d’Hiv round-up with modern traumas and untold stories. Sarah’s Key Bonjour Tristesse by Mark Wilshin CAUTION: Here be spoilers. Gilles Paquet-Brenner’s film is almost as enigmatic as Magritte’s own door-locking inspired painting The Glass Key. Its French title Elle [...]

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Film Review: Beautiful Lies / De Vrais Mensonges (2010)

August 13th, 2011 No Comments

With a happiness drive worthy of Amélie, Pierre Salvadori’s Beautiful Lies transcends its farcical plotting and ropey characterisation to deliver a masterclass on filmmaking. Beautiful Lies The Pursuit Of Happiness by Mark Wilshin CAUTION: Here be spoilers If you were a young French farceur angling to convert Cyrano de Bergerac into a comedy of errors [...]

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Film Review: The Light Thief (2010)

July 29th, 2011 No Comments

Aktan Arym Kubat’s The Light Thief is a mishmash of comedy, politics and poetry, and yet a haunting portrait of the death of cinema. The Light Thief Electric Dreams by Mark Wilshin CAUTION: Here be spoilers. Directed by and starring Aktan Arym Kubat as Svet-Ake, or Mr Light, the man who brings electric magic to remote [...]

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Film Review: Poetry (2010)

July 28th, 2011 No Comments

With geriatric sex and teen suicide, Lee Changdong’s Poetry is no sensationalist exploitation drama, but a dark, tender coming of (old) age. Poetry More Than Words by Mark Wilshin CAUTION: Here be spoilers. Parental guilt seems to be de rigueur these days. With Lynne Ramsay’s We Need To Talk About Kevin and Susanne Bier’s In [...]

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Film Review: Bal / Honey (2010)

July 19th, 2011 1 Comment

Honey Sweet Child Of Mine by Mark Wilshin CAUTION: Here be spoilers. Honey (Bal) is the first and final part of Semih Kaplanoglu’s chronologically backward Yusuf Trilogy, following Egg (Yumurta) and Milk (Süt) in its portrait of Yusuf’s childhood; his love for his father, his nervous struggling at school or the family tragedy that befalls [...]

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Film Review: The Princess of Montpensier (2010)

July 9th, 2011 No Comments

Revisiting the St Bartholomew’s Day Massacre, Bertrand Tavernier’s The Princess of Montpensier tones down the sexy intrigue in favour of female self-determination.  The Princess Of Montpensier Woman In Loveby Mark Wilshin CAUTION: Here be spoilers.  While Madame de La Fayette retains a coveted place in France’s literary canon, she has never really been fashionable among [...]

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Film Review: Film Socialisme (2010)

July 8th, 2011 No Comments

  JLG is back to his impenetrable best with Film Socialisme, a cascading multi-lingual mosaic of ideas and comment presented as a symphony in three reassuringly dense movements. Film Socialisme Ship of Fools by Laura Bennett His first film in six years, the God(ard)father of French cinema is back with a bang. Shown as part [...]

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Film Review: Incendies (2010)

June 29th, 2011 No Comments

Blazing a trail through Lebanon and a family’s past, Denis Villeneuve’s Incendies tiptoes through a chain of unstoppable fires to a reconciliatory future. Incendies The Ring Of Fire by Mark Wilshin CAUTION: Here be spoilers Based on the play by Wajdi Mouawad, Denis Villeneuve’s film version of Incendies is most certainly cinematic. And from its [...]

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